The music distributor CD Baby just completed a huge update over the weekend. Looks like they have some Flex going on in the user admin area: It’s just the default Flex styling, so it’s pretty obvious- very cool to see, nonetheless!
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Grassroots Music Organization Just Plain Folks (JPF) has announced their nominees for the 2009 edition of their music awards. The An Early Morning Letter, Displaced track “Condemnation” off of the recent full-length release, A Prison of Oneself, has received a nomination for best song in the “Ambient” category. After receiving a record setting 42,000 albums
Work on the upcoming release by An Early Morning Letter, Displaced entitled “Shudderflowers” is proceeding much more quickly than anticipated. If things continue to come together in such a timely fashion, the new release will see the light of day before this year comes to a close. Shudderflowers Fever-Drenched and Burning I Am Consumed Fearless
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“Condemnation” from A Prison of Oneself is a JPF 2009 Nominee in the “Ambient” category. It’s nice to see this album get some extra publicity and recognition from a professional organization such as JPF. This piece was nominated from a pool of 42,000 albums and 560,000 songs – so that’s pretty cool! I doubt this
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The University of Denver Center for Teaching & Learning has (finally) released the DU CourseMedia™ Course Media Management System. This has been a focus of my work for the past 5 months or so and is one of the major CTL projects for 2009. Some may recall the mention of the DUVAGA system from time-to-time.
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This is simply an update to showcase some upcoming presentations of mine: Adobe Education Leader Institute 2009 San Jose, California July 22nd 2009 Leveraging the Flash Platform to Deliver Dynamic Media Across Campus This presentation will focus on the DU CourseMedia™ application built by the University of Denver Center for Teaching and Learning and examine
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I’ve been running this weblog for a few years now and find myself contributing to more than just one… http://blogs.adobe.com/educationleaders/ and http://ctl.du.edu/techblog/ are some other weblogs that I contribute to. Not to mention Twitter. I’m beginning to question whether or not things are getting too cloudy for me. Maybe I need some new direction. Maybe
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Recently, my 6 year old Canon miniDV video recorder stopped capturing any video aside from total blackness. A quick search on the Google led me to this: It has come to our attention that the vendor-supplied CCD image sensor used in certain Canon digital cameras and digital video camcorders may cause the following malfunction: When
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Here’s some personal history- this probably colors my opinion a great deal. I first started messing around with “Flash” using Macromedia Flash 4 producing really awful animations and got into it full swing with version 5. With the advent of ActionScript as a language, I began working on lots of interactive materials and a bunch
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The obvious reason being that Flash is the overarching platform with many tools, IDEs, runtimes, et cetera and Flex is a framework used to produce Flash content. Flex Builder has always produced Flash (NOT FLEX) and I’ve encountered many people who just never could grasp this fact. This will help clarify things for so many
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I’ve always been the sort of person who tries to create in a vacuum. I prefer isolation and solitude when working on creative projects and have normally shied away from the involvement of others. This is very different, of course, from many of the development projects I work on with a team, and is one
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Unlike the majority of reports out there, I’ve never had a major problem with Windows Vista. The two big problems I have had are in regard to the difficulty in taking ownership of files and directories even when logged in as an admin, and the initial lack of drivers. The first problem is remedied with
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